Popular Starcraft 2 Website Resources

If you are new to Starcraft 2 and wondering where is the best websites that offer strategies as well as the latest news and resources look no further. This article will outline the best sites available to help you improve whether you are in the Bronze league, Diamond or even up to Masters. They offer various information such as the latest tournament results, upcoming tournament matches around the world GSL, IEM, Dreamhack, WCS Europe and NA, showmatches, pro invitees, qualifiers, streams from pro gamers, player stats and lots of other goodies for you.

1. Teamliquid.net
Look no further. This is the no 1 site dedicated solely or mostly to one of the greatest PC game, SC2. This

Liquid Taeja Wins Dreamhack Valencia

LiquidTaeja has once again proven that he is currently the best Starcraft 2 player in the world, by taking down this third international SC2 tournament, the prestigious European Dreamhack Valencia held on 22-23 September 2012. The Terran player came back after being down two games against another Korean Terran player and ex Brood War pro gamer ForGG from team Millenium. Taeja's win here adds another Euro 7,850 / $10,400 into his bank. His road to the finals seems to be a walk in the park by taking down Bly, Sase and Targa without dropping a single game from the Round of 16. The Terran player took down Warcraft 3 legend Grubby and even

Stephano Wins WCS European Finals

Stephano from team Evil Geniuses has proven once again why he is the best foreigners has to offer representing the west. Dub the best player outside Korea, Stephano took down WCS European Finals with ease. His domination was proven once again with him going undefeated in match series heading all the way into the Grand Finals. His only game loses was against the 2nd and 3rd place finisher and brothers, Vortix and Lucifron. The French player added another fat paycheck of $24,000 into his now fat piggy bank. Who knows what the actual amount he was offered to join EG.

First look at SC2: HOTS Beta

SC2: HOTS, Heart of the Swarm Beta has been released by Blizzard. However, at this stage, only a selected number of players are able to participate in this Closed Beta. Those invited include most of the professional SC2 gamers and random players that signed up for the Beta Trial in your Battle.net account profile. If you are one of those lucky few managed to get your hands on this piece of treasure, congratulations. However, most people like me are not able to get into the beta at this stage, until Blizzard plans to release it to the mass public before actual release of the game itself. If you want to know the actual release date for HOTS, you will probably won't find the answer so soon as this is Blizzard here we are talking about. The awesome gaming company will only release the retail version after it has been perfected and they do not fear to prolong the date. (I predict it to be released during Christmas time or early next year)

Lets, come back to the actual first look at SC2 HOTS at this release of Beta. If you cant get your hands on the Beta trial key, you can always watch the live streams available as well as VODs. There are even tournaments for HOTS beta currently.

Top Protoss Builds for Every Matchup

I will be showing you the most popular and top Protoss build for every matchups against Terran, Zerg and Protoss. These builds are a must know for you and deemed the most reliable builds and standard openings being used by top pro gamers in Korea and Internationally. If you plan to climb the Battlenet ladder, you should start practicing these builds and learn the main strength and weaknesses. SC2 best players like MVP, Nestea, DRG are the masters of builds. They have spend most of their time practicing the same build over and over again. When oGsFin,  (ForGG was his ID back in Brood War days) first transitioned over to Starcraft 2, he had been seen doing the same 1-1-1 build over and over again in his stream. He even use it in all the matchups. This is  how you should be practicing one build at time until you are a master in that build.

Protoss vs Terran Matchup
Let's start off with the Protoss and Terran matchup. Your main aim is to survive as long as possible and play a late game in PvT. This is due to the strength of Protoss late game army composition of Upgrades, Storm and Colossi. Terran is very efficient in the early game while Protoss in the late game. 1 Gate expand is deemed the most standard build nowadays. Long gone were the days of 3 Gate expand or 2 Gate Robo build. The main reason for the decreasing in their popularity is players are getting better in holding pressure from their opponents and larger macro maps. Thus, macro builds are preferred compared to pressure builds. This does not mean that these builds are not feasible. We can still see Gateway pressure timing builds once in a while. Sase and Naniwa are popular for